Improvement in manufacture of boots



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

JOHN J. CHRISTIAN, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,289, dated August 21, 1866.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. CHRISTIAN, of the village ot' Yonkers, in the count)r of Westchester, in the State of New York, have i11- Vented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilating Boots; and I do hereby de- Clare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a front view of a boot in a complete or finished state. Fig. 2 shows the view of the same with the holes in the front and instep uncovered by the cap which forms the ventilating-tube.

The object of my invention is to admit air to the instep and ventilate the feet when long boots are worn, and allow the perspiration and heat to escape outside of the boot-leg in front.

My invention consists in making a series of holes in the vamp or upper-leather on the instep and up in front ot' the boot-leg, and then covering the same with another piece of thin leather cut in such form and stitched onto the instep so as to be ornamental, the same piece forming a narrow strip, extending up to the top or any desired height, so secured to the front of the boot-leg as to form a tube or airpassage to and from the foot Without the possibility of admitting water.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe it more fully, referring to the drawings and to the letters marked thereon.

On the top of the upper B, below and on the instep, I make a series of perforations orV small holes, b b b, as seen in Fig. 2, which may extend, in one or more rows upon the front of the boot-leg, to any desired height.

The holes b b b b may be made in such numbers and of such size as most desirable to effeet the purpose, and they may be made in such a position relative to each other as to form a figure or design. Over the perforations or holes b b b b I stitch a piece of thin patentleather, A, or other equivalent substance, in such manner that it will not press upon the upper B, but lie up loose, so as to leave a space between it and the leather under it that surrounds the perforations.

The cap A may be out and stitched on so as to form any ornamental design or configuration on the top -of the vamp and instep of the boot, it having a long strip of the same,

O C, extending to the top ot' the boot-leg, or-

so far up as may be desirable for the purpose, the strip of leather (l C heilig stitched or secured to the front of the boot-leg D D, so asv with the perforations b b b, strip O (l, forming an air-passage, substantially as and for the -purpose herein set forth.

JOHN J. CHRISTIAN. Witnesses:

J AMES G. MORGAN, J. A. PALMER. 

